The ESRB ratings for Star Wars Outlaws have arrived. This is largely in line with what you'd expect from a sci-fi series of action games, but one notable detail has been revealed. Sabacc will finally be playable in a Star Wars video game. .
The new ESRB Ratings Overview reveals: “During the course of a game, players can wager in-game currency on Sabacc, a blackjack-like card game with detailed rules.” I think we can appreciate the need to warn parents about “simulated gambling” as early information, since the developers haven't revealed those details until now.
Sabacc first appeared in the Star Wars universe 41 years ago in the 1983 novel Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Shall. It quickly became an iconic element of the galactic underworld, and Sabacc is sure to be the game of choice whenever a Star Wars novel or comic needs some high-stakes gambling spice.
The complete rules for Sabacc were first established in the 1989 tabletop RPG supplement Crisis on Cloud City. This game established a blackjack style game where the goal is to get as close to the number 23 (minus or plus) as possible without going over. Despite the established ruleset and popularity of the game within fiction, Star Wars video games have never directly adapted it. The closest we got was Pazaak from Knights of the Old Republic. This is another blackjack style game that spices things up with the addition of deck building elements.
In the defunct Legends canon, Sabacc is the story of how Han Solo won the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian, and the story was so popular that it was included in the screen canon of Solo: A Star Wars Story. drawn as part of. Disney recently sold Sabacc decks at its Galaxy's Edge attraction, but Outlaws will be the game's playable debut for most Star Wars fans.
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